Introduction
To excel as an Office Manager, Administrator, or Secretary you need to perfect your interpersonal and behavioral skills, to ensure you stay in control and on top of every one of your responsibilities.
In this program you will learn how to:
- Prioritize your daily responsibilities to achieve maximum output
- Streamline your work practices and office environment
- Communicate effectively and assertively at all levels
- Understand yourself and others thereby improving interactions and relationships
- Use techniques to help you think creatively, solve problems, plan, and make decisions
Course Objectives of Advanced Office Management & Effective Administration Skills
Participants attending the program will:
- Learn how to prioritize and cope with multiple tasks
- Learn how to think as a manager – planning, making decisions and solving problems
- Learn how to improve their communication skills to enhance their relationships
- Learn to manage your thoughts and feelings and improve self-confidence
- Learn how to be assertive and therefore more effective in the workplace
- Understand and develop intrapersonal and interpersonal skills
Course Methodology of Advanced Office Management & Effective Administration Skills
The program will be interactive and practical; with learning, methods to suit every kind of learning preference. There will be activities in groups and pairs as well as individual exercises and everyone will get an opportunity to discuss their work challenges in a supportive environment. There will also be an opportunity to practice assertive communication skills through role-play and to present a presentation towards the end of the week.
Targeted Audience of Advanced Office Management & Effective Administration Skills
- Office Managers
- Team Leaders
- Administrators
- Supervisors
- Secretaries
- Support Staff
- PA’s
Course Outlines of Advanced Office Management & Effective Administration Skills
Taking Control of Your Work Life
- Introductions – Getting to know each other
- Understanding and clarifying purpose, vision and mission
- External and internal customer service
- The secret to working smarter rather than harder
- Using high leverage activities to achieve more in less time
- Controlling, prioritizing and organizing your work
- Making a long term plan to create the best office in the company!
- Streamlining your office systems
- Getting your paperwork under control
- Making your office user friendly and efficient
Essential Administrative Skills
- Harnessing the power of the mind – through Mind Mapping Techniques
- Right brain/left brain theory
- Managing larger projects to meet deadlines
- Planning skills – using a Gannt chart to chart work progress
- Problem-solving techniques
- Becoming more proactive
- Decision-Making tools
- Managing meetings effectively
- Keeping minutes of meetings
- Working with more than one manager
Vital Communication Skills
- Common communication mistakes
- Different styles of communication
- Communicating with Confidence
- Learning to be more assertive
- Win-win conflict resolution
- The most effective way to say no
- Understanding and using body language
- Understanding gender differences in communication
- Overcome biases and discomfort associated with exercising power
- Understanding different personality types and how to deal with them
- How to create an effective working relationship with any kind of boss
Developing as a professional
- Listening skills – seeking to understand before being understood
- The number one reason we don’t listen well
- Creating a professional image
- Leadership skills
- Knowing and accepting yourself as a leader
- Making things happen from anywhere in the organization
- How to make presentations with confidence and power
- Overcoming the fear of public speaking
- Learn the essentials of planning a presentation
- How to hold the attention of a group
- Painless methods for giving corrective feedback
- Best practices for delivering positive feedback
Self-Empowerment and Self-Management
- Understanding the main causes of stress
- How to build self-confidence and strength the ability to respond to difficult situations
- How to relax and refresh the mind and body
- The signs, symptoms, causes and triggers to stress
- Why stress is a powerful messenger
- How to break the vicious cycle of stressful thinking
- The essential skills of emotional intelligence
- Using emotional intelligence at work
- Transforming fear and negativity and reactive-ness
- Becoming a more proactive, responsible and self-aware person
- Continuing Professional Development - where to go from here
About London
The UK capital of London is a city that combines the old and the new. It is as equally famous for the latest fashion and innovation as it is for its impressive heritage. London's attractions range from the Royal Palace to the DIY atmosphere of its markets. It is also a picturesque city of parks and of course, the majestic Thames River. The city extends for miles beyond its ancient core and each neighborhood has its own charming atmosphere for visitors to explore. London also wears its status as a world city proudly and the influence of different cultures is plain to see in the food and fashion of the capital.
Things to do and places to visit in London
With so many attractions in London, anyone can find something to delight them. Art lovers will enjoy the world-renowned museums and galleries, most of which are free. Sports fans are spoilt for choice by the city's array of football clubs. Theatre and music fans have a vast list of venues to visit, whilst shopaholics have Harrods, Oxford Street, Camden and much more to look forward to after arranging flights to London.
Some unmissable London attractions include:
- Seeing priceless masterpieces in the Tate Britain or the National Gallery.
- Watching the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace.
- Visiting Trafalgar Square's famous monument.
- Marveling at the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.
- Getting a bird's eye view of the city from the London Eye.
- Tasting one of Brick Lane's famous curries.
- Browsing the exclusive shops of Knightsbridge.
- Visiting a market – Spitalfields for antiques, Camden for clothes or Borough Market for street food.
- Admiring design from around the world in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
- Looking for clues at the home of fiction's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.
- Strolling through one of the lovely parks, including Hyde Park, St James' Park or Kew Gardens.
- Eating Britain's most famous dish, fish and chips.
- Watching the street performers in Covent Garden.
- Enjoying the views at a South Bank cafe.